Yes, it takes 2 to Tango. The terrorist could start the dance by releasing the remaining hostages.
Hostage taking is a crime against humanity. It is the act of a terrorist.
I. IN TIMES OF ARMED CONFLICT
IHL is clear: taking and executing hostages is prohibited. Such acts are war crimes in both international and non-international armed conflict (GCI-IV, Common art. 3; GCIV, arts. 34 and 147; API, art. 75).
Perpetrators can be tried before any national court under the principle of universal jurisdiction. This is possible as long as the State in question has incorporated this obligation (derived from the Geneva Conventions) into its domestic laws.
The Rome Statute categorically defines taking hostages in an international or non-international armed conflict as a war crime, which comes under the Court’s jurisdiction. (arts. 8(2)(a)(viii) and 8(2)(c)(iii) of the Rome Statute).**
Your comments continue to astound me. When are you going to use Google? How can you have this so inside out?
Because we are one of the most powerful nations on earth. They all have listen to us.
Legitimate grievances that were ignored.
Wikipedia
In the broader context of the Arab–Israeli conflict in the 21st century, Palestinian nationalist aims have included an end to the refugee status of individuals separated from their native lands during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, advocates stating that a “right of return” exists either to the occupied territories or to both those areas plus places within Israel itself. Nationalists have additionally worked to advance specific causes in terms of current residents’ lives such as freedom of assembly, labor rights, the right to health care, and the right to travel.
Israel has a right to exist inside the limits fixed by the resolutions of UN.
Any territory where Israel is outside these limits is occupied.
If you think that Israel has a right to control and use freely the whole of Palestine, from Liban to Egypt and from the sea to the Jordan river, you negate any destiny to Palestinians except to die.
And you are an extremist Zionist, endorsing the crimes against humanity committed against the Palestinians.
But you show the truth, Israel is not defending itself, it is committing the crime of genocide and you endorse it.
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If you think that Israel has a right to control and use freely the whole of Palestine, from Liban to Egypt and from the sea to the Jordan river, you negate any right to Palestinians except to die.
Note the map of the West Bank and where the highest concentration of settlements are located.
Israeli occupation of the West Bank
The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has been under military occupation by Israel since 7 June 1967, when Israeli forces captured the territory, then ruled by Jordan, during the Six-Day War.[a]
The status of the West Bank as a militarily occupied territory has been affirmed by the International Court of Justice and, with the exception of East Jerusalem, by the Israeli Supreme Court.[1]
The West Bank, excepting East Jerusalem, is administered by the Israeli Civil Administration, a branch of the Israeli Ministry of Defense.[2][3][b] Considered to be a classic example of an “intractable conflict”,[6][c] Israel’s occupation is now the longest in modern history.[7][d][8][9]
Though its occupation is illegal, [e] Israel has cited several reasons for retaining the West Bank within its ambit: historic rights stemming from the Balfour Declaration; security grounds, both internal and external; and the area’s symbolic value for Jews.
Don’t be silly. I am trying be objective and see it from both sides. You don’t see me call you an extremist Islamist, do you?
I don’t like hysterical conversations. That is how wars start!
Well, Israel has and is killing more than Hamas soldiers and taking more than Hamas land.
Apparently you have so ignored Palestinians you don’t recognize they have any right to be there. You have decided the whole region belongs to Israel. This despite them being there before the time of St Paul.
Arab citizens of Israel make up 21% of Israel. One out five Israelis are Arab.
Recent Washington Institute polls have tracked Gazans’ views on Hamas and the ceasefire with Israel, along with a wider regional decline in popularity for Hamas and Hezbollah.
I have said nothing about Palestinian citizens. I am talking about Palestinian government giving aid to terrorists. If Palestine employs terrorists to enforce the law, let them do it on their own territory and arrest or bomb the illegal settlers.
You do not punish an illegal Israeli settler in Palestine by killing his former neighbor
in Israel.
I told you that the settlement issue is a matter of local law enforcement. Terrorist bombing Israel is not going to solve the problem. That is the lesson to be learned.
Only cooperation will end this insanity. It is the terrorists that persist in “terrorizing” innocents.
Yes we know about illegal immigration here don’t we? We don’t bomb Mexico in retaliation to individual crimes.
Does Palestine even have a government?
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Palestinian Authority Basic Law provides for an elected president and legislative council. There have been no elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for Palestinian Authority offices since 2006, and Palestinians there do not have the right to vote in Israeli elections. President Mahmoud Abbas has remained in office despite the expiration of his four-year term in 2009.
The Palestinian Legislative Council has not functioned since 2007, and in 2018 the Palestinian Authority dissolved the Constitutional Court. President Abbas indefinitely postponed national elections in April 2021, stating the reason was that Israel had not agreed to allow Palestinians in East Jerusalem to participate in voting per Israel’s commitment in the Oslo Accords.
The Palestinian Authority head of government is Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh. President Abbas is also chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and general commander of the Fatah movement.
Eight uniformed Palestinian Authority security force (PASF) agencies operated in parts of the West Bank. Several are under Palestinian Authority Ministry of Interior operational control and follow the prime minister’s guidance. The Palestinian Civil Police has primary responsibility for civil and community policing.
The National Security Forces conduct gendarmerie-style security operations in circumstances that exceed the capabilities of the civil police. Military Intelligence handles criminal matters involving PASF personnel, including any accusations of serious offenses. General Intelligence is responsible for external intelligence gathering and operations and internal criminal investigations and arrests. The Preventive Security Organization is responsible for internal intelligence gathering and investigations related to internal security cases.
The Palestinian Authority uses the Preventive Security Organization at times to crack down on dissent it considers threatening to political stability. The Presidential Guard protects facilities and provides dignitary protection. The Civil Defense provides emergency response, including for fires, for which Israel has increasingly requested them to operate within Israel. The Military Medical Services provides lifetime medical care and response to all uniformed Palestinian Authority security forces and their families.
Palestinian Authority civilian authorities maintained effective control of security forces. There were reports that members of the PASF committed abuses.
Unless those territories were used to launch bombing attacks on Israel. And they were! Palestine is effectively a terrorist-harboring nation. It has no standing in the court of international justice.
The strategic locations of the West Bank and Golan Heights were used to bomb Israel and Palestine authorities did nothing to stop it (perhaps they were unable).
Israel is not purposely bombing Palestine civilians. The terrorists hide among civilians and use them as shields. This is not a war crime by Israel. It is a war crime by the terrorists.
Israel has no options.
Do you think Hamas and Hezbollah will stop bombing Israel when Israel stops bombing the terrorist harboring nations?
You think Iran will stop funding Hamas and Hezbollah?
Country Reports on Terrorism 2021: Iran
As in past years, the Iranian government continued supporting terrorist plots or associated activities targeting Iranian dissidents. In recent years, Albania, Belgium, and the Netherlands have all either arrested or expelled Iranian government officials implicated in various terrorist plots in their respective territories.
Denmark similarly recalled its ambassador from Tehran after learning of an Iran-backed plot to kill an Iranian dissident in Denmark. In 2021, the United States disrupted an Iranian intelligence network plot to kidnap Masih Alinejad, an Iranian American journalist and human rights advocate living in Brooklyn, New York, from within the United States. The plot entailed luring Alinejad to a third country to capture her and forcibly render her to Iran.
Until both agree to stop at the same time. And when the price becomes too great, that shall be the time when it all stops.
War is an addiction that affects us all in catastrophic consequences.
Breaking this addiction is a psychological issue and the hardest part to abstain from.
Both sides need to recognize and admit their “complicity” in feeding the addiction and look at it from a purely scientifically perspective.
The a prior question should be :
“How do you solve an existential condition on both sides?”
There MUST be agreement or this might get uncontrollable in a very short time.
In this “intractable case” ALL violence on ALL sides must stop and relations must be conducted in a described manner by a UN consensus.
This must be enforced by UN approved means.
The problem was artificially created and must now be artificially maintained.